Ah! The code>person@ problem is definitely an HTML typo; should have been <code>[EMAIL PROTECTED] Good catch.
The others are indeed small holes to pick at. <grin> I'm sure your phrasing is more technically accurate, but it gets awfully convoluted. When, after all, I _am_ trying to simplify for the consumption of mere mortals. If others agree that I'm misleading users into a wrong understanding, then I'll change it. But if it's "okay" as it stands, I'd rather let it do so. On Jan 7, 2008, at 2:56 PM, Dave Evans wrote: > On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 02:27:05PM -0700, Esther Schindler wrote: >> And finally, part 2 is published too! >> >> Let me know if I made any boo-boos. > > I'm picking fairly small holes here - overall I think it's an > "accurate > enough" article (in that in deliberately provides an overview, and > glosses > over some details). So, no complaints overall. But anyway... > > "the "make sure the sender is trustworthy" process is called > authenticated > SMTP." - I found that phrase to be particularly iffy. I would have > phrased it > more like, "If the MUA authenticates itself to the MTA (e.g. using > your > username & password), this is 'authenticated SMTP'". i.e. if the > MUA connects > to the MTA on a trusted IP address, and doesn't authenticate, it's > probably > misleading/wrong to call that "authenticated SMTP". > > "Your mail server does a lookup on the domain name servers > (DNS) ... to find > out who's signed up to accept mail for the recipient's domain." - > again, > "signed up" is an odd phrase to use here. More like, "Your mail > server does a > lookup ... to find out which mail servers the owners of the > recipient's domain > have nominated to receive incoming mail". i.e. making it clear > that this is > controlled by the recipient domain administrators. > > "I have a message for code>[EMAIL PROTECTED]" - some HTML > glitch there, > I think. > > -- > Dave Evans > http://djce.org.uk/ > http://djce.org.uk/pgpkey > -- -- ## List details at http://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://wiki.exim.org/
